Charles Matthews has tremendous size for an NBA shooting guard standing 6’6 with a 6’9 wingspan and a 189-pound frame. Matthews is a lean athlete with great explosiveness. His 41.5 inch maximum vertical leap is terrific.

Happy for Charles…the big stage helped his brand. I hope he comes back, he needs a year working on the jumper and extending his range. The kid has serious potential, tough to find minutes in the NBA. He is a beilein kid now and that carry’s weight in the league…you never know! Not much is made of this but JB’s kids have a great work ethic and know how to get better. The fundamentals are drilled into them everyday…do work…do good! More work…more results!

Great for Charles if it works out but this is way different than DJ Wilson last year. Professional scouts were much higher on him than anything I’ve heard on Matthews.

I do think defensively he provides something that’s intriguing but with zero shot and limited handles he doesn’t do anything offensively that scouts will salivate over. To his credit he finished the post season playing his best basketball but just to look at his big ten stats. 10 ppg, just over 41 pct shooting overall, 2 apg and 0.5 steals per game. I have to think scouts want to see more than that from a 3rd year college player.

By all means he should test the waters but I’d be shocked personally if he went 1st round and would be fairly surprised but not shocked if he went 2nd round.

OK, I think there is a mountain of difference between Wilson and Matthews. In short, Wilson displayed the skills one needs in the NBA for his position - he defended 4’s and 5’s, showed he could run a pick and roll as a ball handler, play both the roll and pop out of a ball screen, block shots, rebound, shoot.

Matthews has essentially showed none of the skills the NBA will want as a two guard. He can’t, as he is today, be a secondary ball-handler in the NBA. He certainly can’t shoot his weight for the position (the most important thing). He can defend.

If he comes out next year and knocks down 35% of his threes, his Mikal Bridges. Waiting a year could literally be worth millions.

I figure that CM’s going for the feedback from the NBA, but I also wonder if players declare without an agent for the networking part of the combine experience to get in front of NBA scouts and decision makers a year before they actually intend to enter the draft. Plus all they need is one team to be convinced to draft them (in the first round) this year, and staying home doesn’t accomplish that.

I figure that CM’s going for the feedback from the NBA, but I also wonder if players declare without an agent for the networking part of the combine experience to get in front of NBA scouts and decision makers a year before they actually intend to enter the draft. Plus all they need is one team to be convinced to draft them (in the first round) this year, and staying home doesn’t accomplish that.

The flip side is that you can be exposed a bit if you go and perform poorly.

I have no idea, but I’d guess they have to ask for extensions and do a lot online. When I was at Cal athletes had access to the lecture notes via note-taking services that would cover the bigger classes.